This paper investigates whether cyclical variation in women's labour supply in Africa contributes to smoothing … household consumption. We find little support for this hypothesis. Using comparable individual data on about 0.5 million women …-country relationship of women's employment and income is, on average, positive. This finding is robust to controls for country …

Africa should industrialize. Without structural change it cannot sustain recent growth. Economies with more diverse and … sophisticated industrial sectors tend to grow faster. But since 1980 Africa has deindustrialized. The paper shows that between 1975 … and 2005 the size, diversity and sophistication of industry in Africa have all declined. An industrialization strategy …

achieving security, yet the experience of changing policing systems in Africa is disappointing. Only South Africa and a few post …

, especially in Africa, the role of foreign aid in the future should be distinctly different. While aid will be required to …

Over the past two decades, donors increasingly linked foreign aid to democracy objectives in sub-Saharan Africa. Yet … and how foreign aid affects the process of democratic consolidation in sub-Saharan Africa by examining two potential …

The global economic crisis beginning in 2008 has come at a very inopportune time for Africa. Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA …

-country regressions covering 31 Sub-Saharan African countries suggest that growth in Africa is not simply a question of capital …